Cloud Platform Engineer - Chennai, CDC2A | Accenture Job

Project Role : Cloud Platform Engineer
Project Role Description : Designs, builds, tests, and deploys cloud application solutions that integrate cloud and non-cloud infrastructure. Can deploy infrastructure and platform environments, creates a proof of architecture to test architecture viability, security and performance.
Must have skills : AWS Architecture
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Role Description
This position focuses on engineering and operating a secure, scalable cloud platform foundation rather than application delivery. It includes managing an AWS Landing Zone x1 Senior x2 Mid-Level Required Skills AWS multi-account governance (Organizations, SCPs, Control Tower) Advanced Terraform (module development, state management) with multi-account governance, enforcing enterprise security and compliance standards, developing reusable Infrastructure as Code, and designing core networking. The role also extends to supporting landing zone capabilities across additional cloud providers, requiring hands-on ownership of platform architecture, governance, and secure operations at scale.

Skills
AWS multi-account governance (Organizations, SCPs, Control Tower)
Advanced Terraform (module development, state management)
Cloud security & compliance frameworks and tooling (e.g., CIS, ISO 27001, Wiz, GuardDuty)
Cloud networking (VPC design, Transit Gateway, DNS)
Multi-cloud exposure (AWS primary, with Azure/GCP support)
Platform engineering mindset with focus on standardization and automation


Responsibilities
The CPE team operates during standard office hours with flexible scheduling, supported by 24/7 on-call rotation for critical incidents.
We use JIRA for project and task management, Jira Service Desk (JSD) for service requests and SLA tracking, Confluence for documentation, and GitLab for CI/CD and source control.
Communication is direct, async-first, with escalation paths defined for priority issues.

15 years full time education

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